Upcoming Tap Events
This list shares TDC events AND outside events in and around NYC.
To participate in TDC in studio events & open houses, please RSVP to info@tapdancecentral.org and reach out to us directly if you have questions via email or call 646-921-9705.
For more info on each gig, click the link provided, or contact the artist for more info.
TDC Events
Tap Dance Central In Concert
Saturday June 7th, 7pm
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Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Symphony Space
Upper Level, 2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
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Come see our Youth Program students and select Adult Program classes perform a culmination of what they've been working on all year!
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Outside Events
The Joys and Pathways of Tap
Lisa La Touche and Tap Phonics
Wednesday April 16th at 7pm​​
Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center
530 W 166th St
New York, NY 10032
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April 19th at 4pm
58 W 129th St Ground Floor 2203
New York, NY 10027
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Exploring the music and sounds of Black folklore, tradition, and a contemporary reach in connection to Tap Dance. Movement from Lisa La Touche and Tap Phonics and music direction from Eli Yamin.
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Free!​​​
"In This Time" - Luke Hickey
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival
Tuesday April 22nd at 7pm​​
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92Y
Buttenweiser Hall at the Arnold Center
1395 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
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Original work featuring Elizabeth Burke, Jackson Clayton, Tommy Wasiuta, Andrew Atkinson, Mike O'Brien, and Joel Wenhardt
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Max Pollak Group
92Y Uptown Rythm Dance Festival
Thursday April 24th at 7pm
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92Y
Buttenweiser Hall at the Arnold Center
1395 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10128
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Celebrating 25 years of Max Pollak leading his own ensemble! With special guests Barbaro Ramos and Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, and many other's who have rocked the floor with Max across the decades!
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Tickets start at $40​​​
Soles of Duende
92Y Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival
Friday April 25th at 7pm
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David Geffen Stage at Kaufman Concert Hall​
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
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Bonded by their deep love of music, their crafts, and true connection, Soles of Duende is on a lifelong mission to elevate the joy and music of true collaboration across disciplines and the celebration of the forms they practice. Based in the sounds of Tap (Amanda Castro), Flamenco (Arielle Rosales) and Kathak (Brinda Guha) , Soles of Duende’s fire is the spirit that lives within each of these women to celebrate their connection given their beautiful differences and to uplift the forms that made them.
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Tickets start at $40​​​
Brenda Bufalino
Guggemheim's Works & Process
Sunday April 27th at 3 pm and 7 pm​
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The Guggenheim
1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128
(at 88th Street)
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Tap dance icon, choreographer, poet, and drummer Brenda Bufalino closes the inaugural Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival. With stories and work spanning a lifetime, Bufalino starts with the film The White Buffalo Suite, which her company the American Tap Dance Orchestra premiered in 1990.
Her cast of collaborators includes dancers Alice Baum, Tamii Sakurai, and Dylan Szuch as well as accordion player and pianist Ben Rosenbaum and bass player Joe Fonda.
Tap Into the Light
original work by Kaz Kumagai
Tuesday May 13th at 9pm​
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Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
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Award winning tap dancer Kaz Kumagai presents his new work "TAP INTO THE LIGHT" with the legendary Jazz musician Alex Blake (bass) and Toru Dodo (Piano) along with the world best tap dancers such as Anthony Morigerato and Max Pollak and special guests!
Terraza 7 Tap Jam
Hosted by Max Pollak
First Sunday of each month
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Terraza 7
40-19 Gleane St
Elmhurst, NY 11373
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Join Max Pollak's tap jam, where tap dancers and tap students, and musicians of all kinds are invited to join the rhythm!Bring your tap shoes or instruments!
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$15 cover to help keep Terraza open!​​​
TapEx 2025
Showcase
Monday May 19th at 7 pm​
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Theater for the New City,
155 First Avenue (at E. 10th St.)
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FLO-BERT is dedicated to preserving, supporting, showcasing and educating the public about the great American Art Form, Tap Dance. Annually, we present "TapEx", a production which features today's great tap dancers and their choreography / improvography, innovation, and honors those who have contributed to the life, history, preservation and expansion of Tap Dance and the Jazz Arts. This year "TapEx 2025", will present our 35th Anniversary show, live on Monday, May 19, 2025 7pm at The Theater for the New City, at 10th St and First Avenue, Manhattan. Announcing our 2025 Honorees Tap Dancer, Choreographer, MacArthur Grant Recipients Michelle Dorrance and Jared Grimes.
Performers to be announced.
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Feel Free to donate via the Flo-Bert, Ltd project page on the New York Foundation For the arts website. ​
Ayodele Casel
Solo Performance
Wednesday May 28th - Sunday June 8th​
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The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
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Rooted in expressions of selfhood, culture, and legacy, Ayodele Casel pushes tap forward while holding reverence for her predecessors and the African American roots of the form. Directed by long-time collaborator Torya Beard, this new work examines the transformative ties between tap dance and the dynamism of 90s Hip-Hop music.